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Re: Multiple commencement speakers booed for AI comments during graduation speeches

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I don't think that anywhere in that delusional LARP you have considered that if such thing were to start, it would most definitely have the side you are on massacred.

Explain the delusional LARP please, if you think most of the developed world isn't currently living in conservative right wing circumstances feel free to correct me. :-)

I am part of the more poor side of people so if anyone massacres me its likely just some corrupt government and their executive forces.

Re: Multiple commencement speakers booed for AI comments during graduation speeches

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200 years ago people would have booed the industrial revolution. They shouldn't boo the amazing technology, but instead cheer for this liberation from toil and find ways to equitably distribute its benefits.

> They shouldn't boo the amazing technology, but instead cheer for this liberation from toil Come on, we're all adults and well-aware that if companies find a way to make people more productive, it just means they'll expect more, not that we'll get more free-time.

Both sides are at fault here, no? A consumer could work part-time and live as well or even much better as someone 50 years ago, but they largely don't want to. I do concede of course that housing is a bit limiting factor here and my "just adapt your lifestyle" doesn't fully hold.

Re: Multiple commencement speakers booed for AI comments during graduation speeches

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Is "accused of rape" and "raped" the same in your mind?

It's up to you to choose to who to believe about what happened on the yacht in the gulf of Mexico, the seventy year old billionaire cheating on his wife, or the thirty year old woman who accused him of forcible rape. There was some form of financial settlement, but it's still in private arbitration. The public documents said: “He followed me into a shower, slammed me against the wall, and forcibly raped me. I begged…

If I blindly believe all accusations, will it lead to a better world?

Re: Multiple commencement speakers booed for AI comments during graduation speeches

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"But the commies will do it" is just an old hat version of what I just described. And in the specifics of military, it's all nonsense anyway. Reagan pulled it with his dumb space lasers and we ain't got those up there anymore. The only time it was kind of true was with nuclear weapons between the US and USSR. Both countries very rapidly obtained enough weapons to destroy the other utterly, and were just wasting their…

You are not up to date about AI weapons. March 30, 2026: https://thedefender.media/en/2026/03/fedorov-shared-info-abo... > At the same time, the team is developing simulation and modelling environments for testing solutions, AI infrastructure for rapid system deployment, and tools that can be immediately integrated into military units.

The drones are currently one of the major forces in the war. The AI tech is so nondescript that your quote is the entire content in the article you link.

Re: Multiple commencement speakers booed for AI comments during graduation speeches

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There is a dissonance here, can anyone help. It's weird. Doesnt anyone else see this?

To me it feels like an anti-fur protest by people who themselves are wearing fur coats. Why don't we see news of academics happy that their students have made the u-turn they want?

I thought the outcry against AI was from the universities themselves because the students have all happily embraced it and were using it all the time? But now the outcry seems to be by the students themselves?

Are these different students? Maybe: they seem to be about to leave education instead of using it to pass their exams. They have got their certificates. If they are the same students, maybe it's about their use of AI? Perhaps the reaction is a kind of psychological effect of their use, an effect of shame or guilt? Or maybe its not about their personal use but about a wider adoption by other people and the change in the world around them? They don't see their own use of AI as relevant.

Maybe its about the news stories? They all seem to be hype.

Or perhaps it's a fashionable topic for the latest small protest movement? its news because its new, but its not a widespread movement or is it? Is it more like an anti-car protest by people who are forced to use cars and cant use public transport?

So: Will we see the reduction of use by students on their work, and a kind of happiness by the academics on how their students want to learn properly?

Re: Multiple commencement speakers booed for AI comments during graduation speeches

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I can see where it's coming from. Putting it starkly, at a high level, the broad effect of AI is this: devaluation of expertise, whether in coding, or drawing, or music composition, or writing, or translation, or so many other areas. College students working hard to gain expertise in specific areas are faced with the prospect that this very expertise is being "democratized" by AI, putting it in the hands of literally…

> Relatedly, a year ago I was excited to learn the Rust language. Now I don't see the point (And I'm building tools with Rust). I'm sure this sentiment extends across fields. I'm in a very similar boat! I've had rust on my to-do list for a very long time, but never found the bandwidth in the personal life to actually dig in enough to get proficient. Since AI has come around, I've been able to write a lot of tools in…

> and become proficient in it

From reading your comment, I suspect you are not becoming as proficient as you might think.

Re: Multiple commencement speakers booed for AI comments during graduation speeches

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You could just as easily say blame wealth for the rape accusations; there's much more incentive to make fake rape accusations of rich men than of poor men.

There really isn’t that much incentive to accuse a much wealthier man of rape. Famously, justice is rarely (if ever) metered out when the accused person is wealthy and influential. This guy (allegedly) violently raped a woman on his boat and he still gets a speaking gig, so. If you’re so confident it’s a solid way to get ahead, please go ahead and try it yourself.

> Famously, justice is rarely (if ever) metered out when the accused person is wealthy and influential. This guy (allegedly) violently raped a woman on his boat and he still gets a speaking gig, so.

"So"? The fact that someone is alleged of rape and doesn't lose their invited speech is hardly evidence of injustice. Allegations are not convictions nor proof of guilt.

It seems you are against the presumption of innocence. This presumption is itself a cornerstone of justice, not the opposite.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presumption_of_innocence

Re: Multiple commencement speakers booed for AI comments during graduation speeches

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post #117

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You are not up to date about AI weapons. March 30, 2026: https://thedefender.media/en/2026/03/fedorov-shared-info-abo... > At the same time, the team is developing simulation and modelling environments for testing solutions, AI infrastructure for rapid system deployment, and tools that can be immediately integrated into military units.

The drones are currently one of the major forces in the war. The AI tech is so nondescript that your quote is the entire content in the article you link.

Drones need operators.

So how are AI weapons a broadly dumb idea?

Re: Multiple commencement speakers booed for AI comments during graduation speeches

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There is a dissonance here, can anyone help. It's weird. Doesnt anyone else see this? To me it feels like an anti-fur protest by people who themselves are wearing fur coats. Why don't we see news of academics happy that their students have made the u-turn they want? I thought the outcry against AI was from the universities themselves because the students have all happily embraced it and were using it all the time? Bu…

you are overthinking. most of these students had hard time getting a job or didn't get a job yet. they have 100K+ loan to pay. only thing AI has successfully done so far is replacing human labor.

Re: Multiple commencement speakers booed for AI comments during graduation speeches

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There is a dissonance here, can anyone help. It's weird. Doesnt anyone else see this? To me it feels like an anti-fur protest by people who themselves are wearing fur coats. Why don't we see news of academics happy that their students have made the u-turn they want? I thought the outcry against AI was from the universities themselves because the students have all happily embraced it and were using it all the time? Bu…

you are overthinking. most of these students had hard time getting a job or didn't get a job yet. they have 100K+ loan to pay. only thing AI has successfully done so far is replacing human labor.

Yes its more difficult now they are not students.

Would you say that the same students who are protesting AI have used AI to graduate? Its ok either way.

Edits - condensing the questions:

1) Are these protests reflective of the majority of students?

2) Do the majority of students use LLMs regularly in education?

Given the above questions what change in education and change in personal AI use might we see?

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